By RFD Radio Network
CHICAGO – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said he personally heard President Trump utter things that were “hate-filled, vile and racist” during bipartisan immigration talks.
Durbin (D-Ill.) also said the Commander in Chief isn’t being truthful when he denies using an expletive to describe Haiti and African nations.
“I cannot believe that in the history of the White House in that Oval Office any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday,” Durbin said. “You’ve seen the comments in the press. I’ve not read one of them that’s inaccurate.”
Durbin, speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Chicago, also took issue with the President’s choice of immigration terminology.
“When it came to the issue of ‘chain migration,’ I said to the president, ‘Do you realize how painful that term is to so many people? African-Americans believe that they migrated to America in chains, and when you speak about chain migration, it hurts them personally.’ He said, ‘Oh, that’s a good line,'” Durbin related.
Durbin said his hope of getting a bipartisan agreement approved by the White House died Thursday.